On Holbach's Concept Of Social History

Holbach was a France materialism philosophy system's summarist or upbuilder and the renowned initiation thinker in the 18th century. His philosophy thought was containing the rich social conception of history thought. This paper attempts to go into the original being based on historical materialism and focus on the theoretical construct, characteristics and historical influence of Holbach history thought.Holbach society conception of history started from critique the god history viewpoint. He followed constantly the rational flag, and applied the utilization naturalism thought and the rationalism spirit. For human happiness, he tried his best to eliminate all the social phenomenon and concept that disobeyed with the person disposition. Then he took criticize god this history viewpoint as the premise embarking from the naturalism theory of human nature and elaborating ideological problems of human survival, social development and historical progress. So that it was formed the fresh theory structures on the person - benefit history viewpoint. This article contains three parts elaborating and analyzing the Holbach's social conception of history thought.The first part elaborates that Holbach embarked from the entire religious theology system, and made the systematic critique to god this history viewpoint. Then he mainly analyzed the historical root of god this history viewpoint produced and refuted the basic concept of god this history viewpoint. At last, he exposed religion theology historical harm and criticized will god this history viewpoint and the rational god this history viewpoint.The second part elaborates that Holbach person - benefit history viewpoint's theory construction. There were historic conditions and the theory background about Holbach society conception of history's formation. He embarked from the naturalism theory of human nature to elaborate the social power thought about the human nature power and the benefit power. Holbach believed the social history progress, acknowledged the society develops rule. Besides he analyzed national and the legislative essence, opinion and environment dual opposition philosophic thinking in the natural political theory's elaboration.The third part analyzes the theory characteristic of Holbach society conception of history pointing out that his criticism spirit revealed the naturalism tendency and manifested the utilitarianism thought and idealism. It laid the thought foundation that made the important enlightenment to the historical materialism construction.